Civic Tech Field Guide

Fact Check Initiative Japan

Japan

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.

Bot Sentinel

In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.

X (Twitter)

Nepal Election Commission Code of Conduct

Nepal

Iffy Quotient

University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

The Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.

Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT)

The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

Pegabot

ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

a tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.

BotSlayer

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.

X (Twitter)

Digital Polarization Initiative

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

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Pulso

United States of America (the)

Keeping the pulse on and raising up nuestra gente

censusAmericans

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight. Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.

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Bots

@opengovjobs

Capitol Hill

Twitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.

@CongressRfp

Washington, DC

Twitter bot that tweets RFPs from US legislative branch agencies. This is a public interest bot and a project of Demand Progress.

The Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure

iDPI looks to move beyond "fixing" existing internet infrastructures like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and asks what we might build if we constructed digital spaces for the public good instead.

Bipartisan Issue Tracker

Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.

X (Twitter)

@EveryCRSReport

Washington, DC

Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.

Tweet-e-ology

What do your tweets make other people think about your political views? If you are an American Twitter user, log-in to our app below to see how how our model scores your tweets on a continuum from "very liberal" to "very conservative."

X (Twitter)

Filter bubble poppers

Polly Bots

Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less. One of the reasons why this happens is that we become captivated by extremists on the other side who overshadow more moderate voices. The bots below retweet messages 12 by moderates each day who our research indicates resonates with members of the other party. We also screen out messages that score high on toxicity/incivility.

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Perugia Declaration for Ukraine

Perugia, Italy

The International Journalism Festival and members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development call for increased support of independent media and journalists in Ukraine.

Ukraine

Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch)

San Francisco

Twitter's community-based approach to misinformation

ActionBound

Schillerpromenade 31, 12049 Berlin, Germany

Take people on real-world treasure hunts and guided walks

#Walkfreely

A mobile app to report sexual harassment. The collected data can be used as evidence to support preventive measures. Last updated Nov 2020

DeepMind Ethics & Society group

London

We want AI to benefit the world, so we must be thoughtful about how it’s built and used

Code for BTV

Burlington, VT

You can think of Code for BTV as a pro-bono digital agency working for the public good. We pick meaningful projects and do the research, design, architecture, coding, launch, and communications work to help important organizations work more effectively.

A2J Author

United States of America (the)

A2J Author aims to improve access to justice for people who represent themselves. The service hosts simplified legal information and resources created by legal professionals.

Academia de Innovación Política

Paris, France

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

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2020 Political Atlas

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

US Election 2020

61Fresh

The Boston Globe, Exchange Place, Boston, MA, USA

An experimental Boston Globe Lab geo-focused Twitter aggregator

ActBlue

ActBlue, Summer Street, Somerville, MA, USA

We're a nonprofit fundraising platform for campaigns and organizations and the small-dollar donors who support them

21st Century Vocabulary

Brooklyn, NY

The 21st Century Vocabulary seeks to map and catalog the emergence of new terms to enable a more sophisticated public discourse on technology, innovation, and governance.

Glossaries

Eligibee

Berkeley

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

Block Party app

United States of America (the)

Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).

extensions

Ethical tech and responsible tech

Revue

An editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers.

Global Voices Digiglot

a newsletter about languages and tech

indigenous

Google.org Global Impact Awards

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Google

Google Civics

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products

Google

Bridge Figures

Berlin

Bridge Figures is a human rights organization that scales the potential of artists, activists, journalists & other agents of social change to build bridges and break walls in a data-driven world

Memria

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USA

MEMRIA uses the power of voice to help our partners further their missions.

ARTIFICE

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

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Briar Project

Secure messaging, anywhere

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Team Digitale

Via della Mercede, 9 00187 Rome (RM) - Italy

Digital innovation for citizens and for the development of the country. Replaced by the Department for Digital Transformation.

Luminate

36-38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8EB, UK

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

Crisis Text Line

DoSomething.org, West 21st Street, New York, NY, USA

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

HatchLab Innovation Studio

United States of America (the)

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

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ECSA Conference #2020

Trieste Stazione Marittima, Molo dei Bersaglieri, 3, 34123 Trieste TS

Encounters in Citizen Science The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 in Trieste, Italy.

Programa de Derechos Humanos

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la incidencia en el contexto político y social y la promoción de la justicia.